The city of
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the Capital city, capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata ...
is administratively divided into fifteen ''comunas'', unlike the
Province of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires (), officially the Buenos Aires Province (''Provincia de Buenos Aires'' ), is the largest and most populous Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of th ...
, which is subdivided into ''
partidos'', or the rest of Argentina, in which the second-order administrative division is ''
departamentos''. Each ''comuna'' encompasses one or more neighbourhoods (''barrios''), which are represented in the respective community centres for administrative purposes.
The division by ''comunas'' was instituted by the 1996 Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires, and modified in 2005 by Law #1777. The law was again modified in 2008, 2011, and 2013.
List of ''comunas''
The ''comunas'' are serially numbered. They are listed below in numerical order together with their constituent neighbourhoods.
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Comuna 1:
Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero, also known within the urban planning community as the Puerto Madero Waterfront, is a barrio of Buenos Aires in Argentina in the central business district, occupying a significant portion of the Río de la Plata riverbank and repres ...
,
San Nicolás,
Retiro,
Monserrat,
San Telmo and
Constitución
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Comuna 2:
Recoleta
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Comuna 3:
Balvanera and
San Cristóbal
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Comuna 4:
La Boca
La Boca (; "the Mouth", probably of the Matanza River) is a neighborhood (''barrio'') of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. It retains a strong Italian flavour, many of its early settlers having originated in the city of Genoa.
Geography
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,
Barracas,
Parque Patricios
Parque Patricios is a ''barrio'' located on the southern side of Buenos Aires, Argentina belonging to the fourth ''comuna''.
Parque Patricios underwent a transformation during the beginning of the 1900s. The government moved the main slaughterhou ...
and
Nueva Pompeya
Nueva Pompeya ( Spanish for ''New Pompei''), often loosely referred to as Pompeya, is a neighbourhood in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Located in the South side, it has long been one of the city's proletarian districts steeped in the tradi ...
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Comuna 5:
Almagro and
Boedo
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Comuna 6:
Caballito
Caballito (; Spanish for "little horse") is a '' barrio'' (neighborhood) of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. It is the only ''barrio'' in the administrative division ''Comuna'' 6.
It is located in the geographical centre of the city, limit ...
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Comuna 7:
Flores and
Parque Chacabuco
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Comuna 8:
Villa Soldati,
Villa Lugano
Villa Lugano is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the south of the city. It has a population of approximately 114,000 people. It is delimited by Avenida Eva Perón, Avenida General Paz, Calle José Barros Pazos, Av ...
and
Villa Riachuelo
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Comuna 9:
Parque Avellaneda,
Mataderos
Mataderos (Spanish for "slaughterhouses") is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the three ''barrios'' that make up the Comuna 9, alongside Liniers and Parque Avellaneda. Located in the south-west end of the city, ...
and
Liniers
Liniers is a barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires on the edge of the city, centered on Rivadavia Avenue. It is also an important train station and bus hub, connecting western Gran Buenos Aires with the Buenos Aires Metro.
The neighborhood devel ...
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Comuna 10:
Villa Luro
Villa Luro is a ''barrio'' (district) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located near the western end of the City of Buenos Aires.
The district owes its name to Dr. Pedro Luro, a prominent local physician and real-estate developer who, during the ...
,
Vélez Sársfield,
Floresta,
Monte Castro
Monte Castro is a western ''barrio'' (neighborhood) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, belonging to the 10th comuna (district). Its borders are: Alvarez Jonte Ave., Lope de Vega Ave., Juan Agustín García St., Joaquín V. González St., Baigorria St., a ...
,
Villa Real and
Versalles
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Comuna 11:
Villa Devoto
Villa Devoto is a neighborhood or district located in the northwestern area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Its administrative limits are defined by Lope de Vega, General Paz, San Martín, and Francisco Beiró Avenues; and Joaquín V. Gonz ...
,
Villa del Parque,
Villa Santa Rita and
Villa General Mitre
Villa General Mitre is a neighborhood, or ''barrio'', of Buenos Aires.
The ward has a land area of , and a population of 36,000. It was named after General Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868.
Villa Mitre was developed o ...
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Comuna 12:
Villa Pueyrredón,
Villa Urquiza
Villa Urquiza is a barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the barrios of Villa Pueyrredón, Belgrano, Villa Ortúzar, Coghlan, Saavedra and Agronomía. Its limits are the streets and avenues Constituyentes, Cr ...
,
Coghlan and
Saavedra
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Comuna 13:
Núñez,
Belgrano Belgrano may refer to:
People
* Joaquín Belgrano (1773–1848), an Argentine patriot
* José Denis Belgrano (1844–1917), Spanish painter
* Joseph Belgrano (1762–1823), Argentine military officer and politician, brother of Manuel
* Manuel Belg ...
and
Colegiales
Colegiales is a ''barrio'' or district in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between ''Alvarez Thomas av.'', ''Forest av.'', ''De los Incas av.'', ''Virrey del Pino st.'', ''Cabildo av.'', ''Jorge Newbery st.'', ''Crámer st.'' and ''Dorrego ...
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Comuna 14:
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...
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Comuna 15:
Villa Ortúzar
Villa Ortúzar is one of the neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the Capital city, capital and primate city of Argentina. The ...
,
Chacarita,
Villa Crespo
Villa Crespo is a middle class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, located in the geographical center of the city. It had a population of 83,646 people in 2001, and thus currently a population density of 23,235 inhabitants/km2. Villa Crespo c ...
,
La Paternal
La Paternal or Paternal ( en, The Paternal) is a '' neighborhood'' or district in the centre of Buenos Aires city, Argentina. It was founded in 1904 by a city decree (''decreto'') and was named 'La Paternal' after the train station in the neighbou ...
,
Agronomía and
Parque Chas
Parque is the Galician, Portuguese and Spanish word for " park", and may refer to:
* Parque (TransMilenio), a metro station in Bogotá, Colombia
* Parque (Lisbon Metro), in Portugal
* Parque (Santurce), a subbarrio in San Juan, Puerto Rico
* Jim ...
See also
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Departments of Argentina – second-level administrative divisions in other parts of Argentina.
References
External links
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{{Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires